Kate: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Kate: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Kempoch Point'; Kempock Point; Gourock Bay; Inner Clyde Estuary; Kate
Canmore ID 220251
Site Number NS27NW 8073
NGR NS 24 78
NGR Description NS c. 24 78
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS27NW 8073 c. 24 78
N55 58 W4 49
NLO: Kempock Point [name: NS 242 780]
Gourock Bay [name centred NS 247 777]
Gourock [name: NS 230 770].
Location formerly entered as NS c. 242 780 [N55 57.8 W4 49].
Possibly on map sheet NS27NE.
Not to be confused with NS16NE 8024.
18 September 1898. KATE, 10 years, not reg., wood lugsail pleasure boat, 2 ton, none on board. J. Teale, Gourock. Moored in Gourock Bay, ballast. Wind NW8. Near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 691).
(Classified as wooden lugsail [lugger], in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 September 1898). Kate: this vessel was driven from moorings and stranded near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Capt. Teale.
Not registered. Built 1888. 2 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 49.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.
Loss (18 September 1898)
18 September 1898. KATE, 10 years, not reg., wood lugsail pleasure boat, 2 ton, none on board. J. Teale, Gourock. Moored in Gourock Bay, ballast. Wind NW8. Near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 691).
(Classified as wooden lugsail [lugger], in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 September 1898). Kate: this vessel was driven from moorings and stranded near Kempoch [Kempock] Point. Capt. Teale.
Not registered. Built 1888. 2 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 49.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (6 December 2004)
(Location entered as NS c. 24 78 [N55 58 W4 49]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3230
Name : KATE
Latitude : 555700
Longitude : 44900
Date Built : 1888
Registration : Not Registered
Type : LUGSAIL (WOOD)
Tonnage : 2
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1898
Comment : Driven from moorings and stranded near Kempoch Point. Capt. Teale
Cargo : BALLAST
Named Location (Nlo) (22 March 2012)
NLO: Kempock Point [name: NS 242 780]
Gourock Bay [name centred NS 247 777]
Gourock [name: NS 230 770].
Location formerly entered as NS c. 242 780 [N55 57.8 W4 49].
Possibly on map sheet NS27NE.
Not to be confused with NS16NE 8024.